Friday, May 20, 2011

The Rome Barnes and Nobles will have a kickoff tomorrow morning at 11:00 a.m. for their summer reading program. The Rome Braves will be there with Romey! They will be handing out the reading log for the summer program which includes rewards of free books. I wish we could go to this but we have a game at 10:00. You all should go and take your baseball. Brian McCann started in Rome and we met him at the library doing something just like this. You never know whose autograph you might be getting.

Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Go to Coupons.com and print the Expo coupon for $2 off. You know this will be on the kid's school supply list. Don't have a kid? Print it and give it to a teacher or forward to me, I will make sure they are used! Teachers only use these now and go through them fast!

At Family Dollar you can get Queen Covergirl nail products for free. Clip May 1st $2.50 off 2 and it could even be a money maker. I replaced our nail clips, emory board, file and cheese grater thingy doo :)

Disney is having a warehouse sale that brings the price of Disney character beach towels down to 7.99 and cute swim suits down to 7.99 as well. They have some lunch boxes, shoulder bags and PJs at great prices too! I just got Olivia a Minnie Mouse swimsuit with matching personalized Minnie Mouse beach towel for 15.98! She is going to be so excited!

Monday, May 16, 2011

Kroger has 1/2 gallon of milk for $1! Buttermilk, skim, 1%, 2% and chocolate all one buck! This is part of a 4-day sale not in the ad so hurry! Also, Sliders (frozen section) are on closeout for 4.99, regular 9.99. I bought two bags but left some for you. :)

Go like Aunt Jemima on Facebook here, watch the short video under our kitchen and get your coupon for $1 off. The price at Kroger is $1.38 when you buy 10 so this coupon brings it down to 88 cents for waffles, etc.

My Bologna has a first name..its O-S-C-A-R..is a buck too!

Finally, use 04/10 Smartsource coupon for Kellogg's to make select Kellogg's cereal $1.48 a piece. That is $2.48 for a box of cereal and a half gallon of milk. Not bad for a week's worth of breakfast!

Sign up here to get a blizzard and many other freebies! My advice is go to gmail or yahoo and make a secondary email to sign up for these offers. This way your main box isn't full of offers and you can go check out your email set up for these when you have time to sift through them. I have one that I use for clubs and freebies. So, print this out and go get your free sweet potato fries at Chick-Fil-A. Great Friday afternoon snack right there for nothing!

It is looking like a great weekend for the movies!! Don't forget any movie that starts between 4-5:30 is 5 bucks at Carmike in Cartersville. We can't wait until Kung Fu Panda comes out here. What are you wanting to see?

Don't forget to follow my blog, comment my post and you can win a family pack of homerun hill tickets to the Rome Braves who are in town all weekend.

If you are not a member of Eversave, click here, sign up and check out the Sockgram deal for Sacramento. If you do not have an Eversave account, you will only pay $3 for today's deal if you sign up today!!

I love this place!! They are having great online deals for $6 matchables and swim wear. Shipping is always $5 too.

Here is how I save money:

1. Go to EBATES and follow the link for 3% cash back. If you do not have an ebates account yet, you should get one. All you have to do is find your store and follow the links for money back. A check is sent right to your mailbox. Start here if you do not have an ebates account and then look up Children's Place in the top right search box.

2. Using The Children's Place page that opened via Ebates, shop away. I always start with the sale tab and clearance tab and go from there based on what Olivia might need. (So sad Micah has outgrown TCP.)

3. Check out using promo code MARIAH for 20% off your entire order through the 15th. So that is $6 matchables, 25% off swimwear, $4.99 spring deals, $0.99 items in clearance, 20% off that total and a 3% check back from Ebates! Perfect time to stock up for summer and some winter items for next year.

Starbucks brought back their Mocha coconut frappuccino just in time for frappuccino happy hour. Now through the 16th, from 4-6:00 p.m., you can get half off any frappuccino including Mocha coconut. It taste like a girlscout cookie in a cup - so GOOD!

Go over to Facebook and like Freschetta for a $2 off coupon. Combine that with Kroger's buy 10 (mix and match) get $5 off and the price is $2.49 per pizza - not bad for a quick, easy lunch. Sale is good thru Saturday.

Don't forget to follow my page, leave a comment and send a friend over. Someone who leaves a comment will win a 4-pack of Braves Homerun Hill tickets when I reach 2300 views.

Restaurant.com has some local deals as well and with promo code TASTY you can get a $25 certificate for $4.50.

Restaurants include the Great American Grill in Cartersville, Johnny's New York Style Pizza in Cartersville and Wow Cafe and Wingery in Rome.

Don't forget CiCi's Pizza in Cartersville, next to Target, will be donating 20% of all proceeds to United Way of Bartow County specifically for storm victims. That's roughly $2.50 per family and could add up! Make sure you pass this on!

Anyone who knows me at all knows how much me and the girls LOVE, LOVE Chick-Fil-A so this deal makes me haaaappy. You can get $20 worth of food for $10 at four locations in Atlanta - one of those being Chastain which is on the way to Town Center so definitely doable. That is exit 271 off of 75, take a left and you will see it on the left.

First you will need to set up an account at Fam Grab. This is alot like Groupon but targets family fun in and around Atlanta and spotlights new places you might not know about otherwise. After you sign up, go to Today's Grab and Chick-Fil-A is the deal of the day!

Don't forget I am giving away a 4-pack of Braves tickets when I reach 2300 visitors! Check out this post for more information!

Monday, May 9, 2011

Roman Roast on the River is at Ridge Ferry Park this weekend. Kids 7 and under are free and adults are $5. All slots are full for competing teams so there should be some good eats out there.

Bartow 10th annual duck derby is this Saturday. Follow the link to learn about the derby and the full day of entertainment scheduled for a great cause. You can also buy your ducks on that page for a chance to win a new car! I have never been but it sounds like fun and I plan on going this year. Everyone should see 15,000 rubber ducks racing to the finish line at least once in their life.

Don't forget about the Father/Son campout at Calhoun Chick-Fil-A on the 13th that I posted about here

Right now movies at Cartersville Carmike are only $5 for any movie that starts between 4:00 and 5:30 and Tuesday is stimulus Tuesday with $1 popcorn and $1 drinks. I am excited about some great family friendly movies coming out soon.

The Rome Braves will be back in town this weekend for games Friday and Saturday at 7 and Sunday at 2:00 p.m. If you haven't taken your family out to homerun hill for a night of baseball, you are missing out! Also, they have $1 deal kiddy corner including french fries, hot dogs or coke. Homerun Hill tickets are $4 a piece and are great with little ones because they can run around and make friends instead of being confined to a seat.

Also, if I can get 2300 views, I will do a giveaway for a 4 pack of Homerun Hill tickets for you and your family. Just comment on any of my post and share with your friends so we can get to 2300 views! Not a lot of traffic right now so it might be easy to win! :)

Also, Chick-Fil-A in Calhoun has a drive going on for cases of water for storm affected areas. If you bring in a case of water, you get a free chicken sandwiches. With the deals at Kroger and Ingles this week, that is a wash. Why not do it?

For Groupon deals, you need to join Groupon which is free! I have purchased 21 deals from Groupon this year and check it daily. ♥ it! If you are going to buy anything at Groupon, go through Ebates first. This way, every Groupon purchase you make will give you some money back and this adds up! They send out a paper check right to your door every quarter. If I am going to buy anything online, I check their site first so I can route through them and earn cash back. Nothing hidden - Just money back that you can keep up with in real time on their page. Follow my links above to sign up for each first!

You can check out all the deals if you wish but I will post family friendly ones here:

Groupon:Museum - So, no kidding, this is a tow truck museum in Chattanooga - but at a great deal! :) Faux Real Painters: Pay $112 for 2 coats of paint in one room - Atlanta deal with mileage restrictions. Read the information before buying. We recently had estimates for this and this is a great deal!Kid to Kid: Kid's clothing and maternity clothing at several locations - Pay $7 for $15 worth of clothing in Cobb county. My FAVORITE! Blockbuster Express $2 for 5 rentals. We now have these in Cartersville, Rome and two in Adairsville! Great for new releases and you can rent online at BlockbusterExpress. Enter your zip code to find the kiosk closest to you, choose your movies, enter your code from Groupon and you're done. Go to the kiosk, swipe your credit card and your movies will pop out. So quick and easy and CHEAP! This is a national deal even though it says Naples. It doesn't matter where you use it. You can buy 5 of these. They do not expire for one year and I like to give a code to the person in front of me or behind me. It's not much but a free movie is nice!

Make sure you load Groupon onto your Mobile to have access to all your codes on the go.

Wednesday, May 4, 2011

With Spring comes new things - flowers, family outtings and a new blog! Sounds about right. I had this idea a few weeks ago when I realized how many web pages I frequented to get the community news. Adairsville is 9 miles from Calhoun, 19 miles from Cartersville, 14 miles to downtown Rome, 60 miles to Chattanooga and 60 short highway miles to Atlanta - something is always going on but we don't always hear about it. I hope we can share money saving ideas, family outting plans, sound off when we need to and introduce local companies we can use!

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...being nosy so you don't have to be! A place to find out what is going on in Calhoun, Rome and Cartersville - scoops, steals and soap boxes. I want to share money saving ideas, coupons secrets and let you sound off on what's going on.